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Sajid Ali; Afaq Ahmed – Policy Futures in Education, 2024
Countries in the global South, such as Pakistan, face challenges to determine their education policies without any external pressures. The national sphere of authority of the state has to deal with both global and national policy pressures. The travelling policy gets embedded in the local context adjusting to the local demands. However, for this…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy, Educational Policy
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Mohan J. Dutta – Communication Education, 2024
In this essay, the author interrogates openings for decolonizing the pedagogy of health communication campaigns. In doing so, they will not rehash in this stimulus essay the current zeitgeist of health communication campaigns, which forms the dominant conceptual registers and shapes the teaching and practice of health communication campaigns.…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Health Education, Health Promotion, Decolonization
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Le, Minh Hang – Journal of Educational Change, 2020
This paper is a reflection upon my previous research on an educational reform initiative in Vietnam that was borrowed from Colombia's renowned Escuela Nueva model. In addition to being situated within the global phenomenon of policy lending/borrowing, or policy transfer, this case also reflects the prevalence of policy borrowing in Vietnam's…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Technology Transfer, Models, Educational Policy
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Artila Devi; Ligia Guterres – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2022
This paper discusses issues involved in trying to make foreign aid-funded education technology (EdTech) projects sustainable in the context of Small Island Developing States. Using two EdTech projects, the paper shares the authors' experiences in working towards sustainability by involving local stakeholders through collaborative design and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Sustainability, Electronic Learning
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Rose, Ebony – Curriculum Inquiry, 2019
In her scholarship of the past five decades, Sylvia Wynter has woven a critique of education in Caribbean, European, African, and American societies. In addition, her work demonstrates how education globally structures a particular cultural, historical, and onto-epistemic anti-Black/anti-Indigenous worldview. In Wynter's most neglected piece of…
Descriptors: Humanism, Racial Bias, Foreign Policy, Western Civilization
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Ghosh, Ratna – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2020
The concept of Southern Theory is a response to Northern sociological theory, which is considered to be incomplete because it does not consider global dynamics, which would include the life-experiences of people of the South and the impact of socio-cultural changes brought about by colonialism and globalization. Raewyn Connell introduced the term…
Descriptors: Indians, Foreign Policy, Developing Nations, Global Approach
US Agency for International Development, 2019
USAID believes that education is a foundational driver of development and fundamental to achieving selfreliance. When children and youth go to school and receive training in skills they can use in the workforce and to navigate life, they are able to build more hopeful and prosperous futures for themselves, their families, communities, and…
Descriptors: International Organizations, International Programs, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
US Agency for International Development, 2018
USAID's education work focuses on improving the reading skills of children; strengthening youth workforce development and higher education; and expanding access to quality education in crisis and conflict environments. They partner to leverage resources and expertise, strengthen education systems and drive change so that children and youth can…
Descriptors: International Organizations, International Programs, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
US Agency for International Development, 2019
Equal access to relevant, quality education creates pathways for greater economic growth, improved health outcomes, sustained democratic governance, and more peaceful and resilient societies. Education promotes positive socio-economic progress and enhances standards of living. Strengthening education systems--the people, public and private…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Access to Education, Foreign Policy, Developing Nations
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Anand, Pranit; Lui, Byron – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2019
There is widespread agreement that collaboration, teamwork and intercultural competence, among others, are essential 21st century skills. Higher education teaching and learning initiatives tend to have a significant focus on developing these skills through assessments and other in-class activities, and yet often do not take advantage of…
Descriptors: 21st Century Skills, International Cooperation, Intercultural Communication, Foreign Countries
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Ofir, Zenda – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
Although some argue that distinctions between "evaluation" and "development evaluation" are increasingly superfluous, it is important to recognize that some distinctions still matter. The severe vulnerabilities and power asymmetries inherent in most developing country systems and societies make the task of evaluation…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Program Evaluation, Financial Support, Foreign Policy
Orelus, Pierre W., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
"A Decolonizing Encounter" examines the effects of western colonialism on historically marginalized and colonized populations living both in the West and the "third world". Specifically, it explores crucial issues such as the decolonizing of schools and communities of color; the decentralization of power of the capitalist and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Democracy, Global Approach, Foreign Policy
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Epstein, Debbie; Morrell, Robert – Gender and Education, 2012
This article draws on the five other papers from South Africa in this issue of "Gender and Education" to consider how Southern theory has been developed and is developing in relation to gender and education in South Africa. We argue that Southern theory is not an on-the-shelf solution to global geopolitical inequalities but a work in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Theories, Profiles
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Thomas, M. A. – Policy Review, 2012
The shifting ideological winds of foreign aid donors have driven their policy towards governments in poor countries. Donors supported state-led development policies in poor countries from the 1940s to the 1970s; market and private-sector driven reforms during the 1980s and 1990s; and returned their attention to the state with an emphasis on…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Donors, Public Policy
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Adnett, Nick – Journal of Education Policy, 2010
In recent years there has been a significant growth in the number of international students. In several developed countries the inflow of foreign tertiary students has become a significant source of income for higher education (HE) providers and the economy as a whole. This net inflow of foreign students has been indirectly and, more recently,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Economic Development, Developed Nations, International Education
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